EPR is back - 12 Aug 2026 deadline | Business Seller Board

bulk_distribution · 2026-06-30T22:16:54.150764Z

I thought the whole EPR thing (Lizenzero etc) had fizzled out due to mass noncompliance.Now I see there's a 12 Aug 2026 deadline for compliance. Google AI says it may not apply to me if l'm a smalltime seller and l can't remember its definition for smalltime turnover. I don't want to post what Google AI says in any case as this is too important for error.Problem: The whole EPR scene is a Picasso (think Guernica).It starts off smoothly: https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/account/regulatory/understanding-extended-producer-responsibility-ebay?id=5482But as you can see, it's a mess of acronyms and algorithms: GERMANY: https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/account/regulatory/extended-producer-responsibility/extended-producer-responsibility-selling-germany?id=5336(with a little bit about Austria for some reason, and it mentions Austra's rules have changed)[Gist: must register with Lizenzero for packaging, and also: to get a LUCID number, you must register with ZSVR, but what is Lizenzero for then? And you must register with EAR to get a WEEE number for EEE products, and EEE is in 6 categories, mostly determined by dimensions. Also you must provide recycling information specific to the item you're selling, but unsure if the info can be placed in the advert, or if it must be part of the package you're physically sending]FRANCE: https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/account/regulatory/extended-producer-responsibility/extended-producer-responsibility-selling-france?id=5314[Gist: you need to make sure you’re compliant with France's "Law against Waste and for the Circular Economy". There's a hint that this only applies to "business sellers selling new items in certain categories", and this will involve adding extra info to eBay listings. The extra info appears to be: Unique ID number, aka UIN, for each EPR category, and you'll need a separate UIN for your packaging regardless whether the item is new or used, but it's unclear if the packaging itself must be new. The UIN is known as your EPR number. Your supplier will give you the UIN, presumably this includes the UIN for packaging, which implies UIN applies only to new packaging, surely? Ultimately then, if you're selling a laptop for France, you'll need a separate UIN for the electronics, the battery and the packaging and bundled documents. If you are listing Furniture or EEE categories, you must add an eco-participation fee to each item you list, so a €1000 laptop may be listed with an eco-participation fee of €1, but this fee is a fixed amount and you must contact your supplier to find out what it is. You must also add a repairability score to your EEE items, from 0-10, which will appear as a pictogram, and you "may" (under which conditions?) need to take back EEE items, furniture and other listed EPR categories, FREE OF CHARGE!]SPAIN: https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/account/regulatory/extended-producer-responsibility/extended-producer-responsibility-selling-spain?id=5460[Gist: must be compliant with the Royal Decree 1055/2022. This means you must add a Spanish Producer of Products Registration Number to your invoice. However, eBay can provide this number, but l have a horrible feeling this number is only provided once you purchase your shipping label through eBay, otherwise no number will relayed to the Spanish customs. However, eBay does state that we must add to our invoice "Spanish Producer of Products Registration Number: ENV/2023/000034242" so maybe that is all the compliance done? In order to comply with EPR regulations, apparently there's a separate matter: we must be registered as a Producer of Products with ECOEMBES which coordinates recycling of light packaging and acts as the "SCRAP" scheme - but thankfully, eBay has done the registration for us, and will also pay the fees and report on annual packaging volume to ECOEMBES as part of their SCRAP scheme]So: does thisOnly apply to business sellers?Only apply to sellers with an annual turnover above a certain threshold?If so, what is the threshold and how is it judged?Before the couch potatoes that have never had more than a £50 week on eBay try to debunk this as they do every other thread: no l am not secretly a business seller on a private ID. I'm not a private seller on a business ID. You are not sending me to jail for eternity so please, stop that rubbish it gets tiresome on here, get back to your massive bag of Tyrrell's crisps. Also, if you are done with selling internationally / selling to the EU, good for you. However, l'm trying to get to the bottom of how to sell to the EU, so that's all l want to discuss. Ooookay with that said, hopefully we can settle this EPR matter once and for all.

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